bioluminescence

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Through experiments that included hot and cold testing and oxygen depletion studies, Deheyn and Latz found that the bioluminescence is active in temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius (minus 4 degrees Fahrenheit).

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  1. noun Emission of visible light by living organisms such as the firefly and various fish, fungi, and bacteria.

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  • The bioluminescence -- they use the lights for attracting mates and attracting prey and communicating. —  David Gallo on life in the deep oceans
  • These blinking lights: a world of bioluminescence, like fireflies. —  David Gallo shows underwater astonishments
  • Without the bioluminescence, now provided by little worms hanging from filaments of mucous, I couldn't have seen a thing and would have fallen on my butt even more frequently than I did, which was about every five steps. —  FSFDec2003
  • Seyyan stood in the largest new entryway, silhouetted by golden bioluminescence, her face shadowed, dramatized, by the softer party light. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • ‘What you’ve been seeing is bioluminescence, very similar to that produced by microorganisms in the tropical seas of Earth. —  A Meeting with Medusa
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